Posts Tagged ‘saving money’

Welcome back to our newest monthly feature, Ask the Travel Coach! Life Sabbatical Coach Tara Russell has joined the Lost Girls team to act as our resident Travel Coach in Residence to answer questions from readers in our brand-new monthly feature. Readers will submit questions here, and one will be answered...

This week’s LG of the Week, Kate McCulley, got the travel bug at the age of 16, and it began an obsession. But she quickly learned how easily her travel dreams could be pushed aside when life gets in the way. But when things started to crumble, it gave her the motivation she needed to get her dreams...

Perhaps my story will be the plainest one you will ever read on Lost Girls. I was never a powerful executive, had a cutting-edge career, made a lucrative income, or had an Orlando Bloom clone for a boyfriend, like so many of the other featured lost girls. My only real advantage has been my education.
I...

By Patty Hodapp
LG Deputy Editor
Dying to go on a cruise, but can’t quite bring yourself to click the “confirm purchase” button on a pricey seven-day getaway? We hear ya. Fronting the entire cost of your trip all at once can be daunting, particularly when you’re dealing with limited...

This week’s featured blog comes from our friend, Steph, over at Twenty-SomethingTravel.com, a blog about travel for young people; the why, the where and the how. Here, she shares some great (and easy!) tips on how to stash away a nice chunk of travel money.
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The Small Things: 9 Little Ways...

Q. Wow girls! You all rock my world—I love your site and ditto on all the Lost Girl sentiments. I have been a relatively steady traveler: China, Russia, Mongolia, all of Western Europe, Honduras, parts of Eastern Europe and India. I feel a travel bug nagging for a longer trip though…. Are...

by Molly Fergus
LG Travel News Editor
Tales of travel bloggers who rake in six-figures remind me of the opening montage of He’s Just Not That Into You. In the scene, 20 and 30-something single women swap relationship fictions -the reformed cheater, the suddenly pro-marriage live-in boyfriend. It...

by Kyle Hepp
So the last time the Lost Girls heard from me, I had just married my Chilean husband, was adjusting to life as a newlywed expat in Chile and trying to save money for a trip around the world.
Well, guess what I’m doing now – still trying to save money for a trip around the...

For those of us on a backpackers’ budget but who want to stay within walking distance of New York’s trendiest neighborhoods, The Jane Hotel opened its doors this fall. The restored waterfront building has rooms for just $99 a night and is next to the legendary Meatpacking District, West Village,...

We’re not sure if its the super-cute, girlie logo, the service-driven content or the fact that blogger Gwen Bell isn’t afraid to post wacky pictures of herself, but we’re totally addicted to her new travel site Expatriette. In her “vision statment,” Gwen pledges to “support,...

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